The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-29
THE "RAG BAG"
Dolly Tells Will About the Fee
male Bore and Grows
Poetic.

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the room where | was sitting, are you
very ingenious? "Well | dun no,
Dolly" answered Will, l never in
vented an electric motor or a double
back-action duplex hustle, or anything
of that kind you knOw-but as for
making biscuit, or nursing the baby,
or knocking the stufing out of an
oyster stew, / must say think | am
a great success" "Oh nonsense" /
said, Will yon are such a tease.
but listen to me, | am in real trouble
aud want counsel"
"Well, all right" answered vii, I"
"but Dolly, don't you think it would
be better to wait until after tea, 1 am
really rarenously hungry, and some
how / never can counsel much while
there's IS i'll small voice, as it were,
gnawing in the region of my watch
chain."
Certainly" l assented, and so the
meeting adjourned at once to the sup
per room, and l wisely held my peace
until the still small voice was bnried
under slice of steak, a plate of waf-
hes. half dozen or 80 of sardineS,
and samples of divers other things =
Will is hearty, healthy eater, as
becomes man full OF life and energy
and blood unmixed with whisky, or,
as an old topper remarked the other
day, what is worse, water often
tell the dear boy that if ] was board
ing house keeper, would charge him
more for his board than for the ordi-
nary puny little bOarder, whose neck
is like smelling bottle and whose
limbs look as if they would fit in a
candle mold, he Is so very robust.
Will always laughs and says, dolly,
don't stint the table; if you do, we
must divide our possessions" So
well-after we went back to the
home room, as / always call our lit
tie cosy sitting room, waited until
Will was comfortable and then / said,
"You see, Willie, am thinking
strongly of having reception days,
just as they do everywhere in towns of
any considerable Importance.
well" answered Will, 81 have
no objections. My dear Dolly, do
you intend receiving every day."
mo, certainly not, but that is the
whole thing, and, while l am thor
oughly ashamed of it, yet | must tell
you that | am completely and heart
lily weary of receiving every day,
and especially at all hours
of the day. Two of my acquaint-
ances have been in the habit
of making themselves. thoroughly
at home in our house and really, Viii
lie, before I can hardly get the children
dressed in the morning, one or the
other of those women is ON hand. |
can't give the girl an order, but they
hear it, | can't take an old dress from
its peg. with view of renovating it,
but Mrs.-Or Mrs. makes suggestions,
| cant dust or sweep or sew, because
of my Company" l can's read MIN
ute-Or just anything-aDd you have
no idea what nuisance the 'hui
thing is, as Major Cole was want TO n
mark.
"Oh yes l do" said Will, but Dolly
why don't you rid yourself
of your nuisanc. t.? Just pu-
tie Y say ladies you might find some
little task at home, such as sewing
button on your husbands shirt OF
busting off the parlor gimeracss or
something of that kind aud / gu ess
you'll have 70 excuse me for the rest |
Of the day Ell; how would that SCUM
Dolly.
Oh VIII, it wouldn't do at all, they |
would get dreadfully angry and
they'd manage To- get even by telling |
tales on me TO some of the other
neighbors. They are gossiping women
bo;h of them and | do not really en-
10y their visits under the most tavOra-
Die circumstances. Now, if liver,
to issue cards of reception, just as IS
practiced in all cities outside of Sc
dalis, | am sure [ could save
myself from great annoyance. VIII
looked at me a moment and shen said, |
"UOlly, the plan is an excellent one
and it just lacks two essentials of be-
ing perfect. One is, that neither Of
the women you mention would take |
the hint and stay away, and the other
is that Sedalia hates an innovation IN |
social mat ers and your reception days
would be looked upon with so much !
suspicion that nobody would cal un-
less they had previously intended call
ing on those days. 1t looks little
'hack-woodsy' am ready to acknowl-
edge, but nevertheless here ne areShd |
the only remedy that Lean suggest for
the two ladies you mentioned, is to
r,y-e them an 'after dinner coffee or |